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A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza
All across the city neighborhood groups are coming together to re-envision and plan their own communities. In the last few months we've seen valuable community-planning processes taking place in Hell's Kitchen, the Meatpacking District and, to a certain extent, along Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. People aren't waiting around for real estate developers or city agencies to tell them how their neighborhoods should be. They are going out and doing the thinking and planning themselves.
March 29, 2007
DOT Explains New Traffic Solution. But What’s the Problem?
The Department of Transportation's press office sends along this response to the story we broke yesterday about the agency's plan to revamp Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Avenues running through Park Slope, Brooklyn:
March 1, 2007